Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

This second edition reflects the current state of the art in the field. It includes updated material on geographic knowledge discovery, geographic data warehouse research, map cubes, spatial dependency, spatial clustering methods, clustering techniques for trajectory data, INGENS 2.0, and geovisualization techniques. Recognizing the growth in mobile technologies and trajectory data, this edition provides five new chapters on knowledge discovery from spatiotemporal and mobile objects databases. It also contains new chapters on data quality issues, medoid computation, geographically weighted regression, and an integrated approach to multivariate analysis and geovisualization.